CHAPTER 562: CHAPTER 293: DEMON ENVOY BOUNTY NOTICE

[Lureya’s Personal Hot Spring Water (Water of Life) ×114 Bottles, acquired!]

"Perfect. This will be more than enough for half a year."

Shami placed the last bottle filled with gold fur flat plank hot spring water into the Demon King Ring, feeling quite satisfied.

Beside her, the elf maiden stood weakly, breathing out white steam. It was obvious that her skin was smooth and rosy due to the long soak in the hot spring.

"I never want to soak in a hot spring again in my life..."

"Oh come on! Taking a bath every day is a good child’s habit."

Shami immediately corrected the elf maiden’s misconception. After all, she was the key to the Water of Life, a major personal treasure of the Demon King. If she didn’t bathe in the hot springs, then staying in the demon race’s territory would lose half its meaning.

It was getting late, and the two of them got up to leave.

Shami was still longing to see the deepest part of the Elf Forest, so the two took a detour.

At dusk.

The two returned to the elf maiden’s villa.

The elf maiden gave Centaur Kalula two days to prepare, so she would be staying inside the Elf Forest for two days.

Entering the house.

Shami watched the elf maiden take off her shoes at the entrance, and then walked toward him in white knee-high socks on the floor.

"I can’t stay here for two days. The Demon Realm is still in the development stage and needs the Demon King to check on it regularly. Lureya, use the reverse summoning of the Spirit Contract to send me out of the Elf Forest."

The elf maiden thought for a while, and although she looked reluctant to send Shami away, she eventually nodded.

"Okay..."

After agreeing to stay in contact using the rings, Shami returned to the Elf Town outside the Elf Forest.

The teleportation gate activated, directly sending him back to the Demon Realm.

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Returning to the Demon Realm, Shami felt overwhelmed by the flood of news pouring in.

[Big news: Identity confirmed! Detailed information of the first Demon Envoy revealed!]

[Fess Kingdom clarifies: The Demon Envoy is merely a villager temporarily residing within the kingdom, not an official member, and all consequences have nothing to do with the kingdom.]

[Esper Kingdom’s military statement: Strongly condemns the goblin’s behavior of entering Esper Kingdom without warning. This act is shameless. Goblins should respect the kingdom’s sovereignty and leave Esper Kingdom’s territory immediately!]

[Shocking! This Demon Envoy was once a mere villager. How exactly did she fall step by step from a villager to a Demon Envoy? Let’s uncover the secrets one by one. Eighteen years ago, in that village, a... Minimum of 3 silver coins/day to unlock premium membership for full content...]

[Adventurer’s Guild Monster Research Institute dispels rumors: From any perspective, the strength of slimes has not increased nor have they mutated. They remain one of the easiest monsters to defeat.

Recently, due to numerous requests to adjust the difficulty of slime extermination missions from the lowest level D-rank to C-rank and above, the Adventurer’s Guild believes that the issue likely lies with the adventurers themselves.

Train more if you’re not good enough. How is it that slimes are difficult to defeat? The past is the past, the present is the present. Why were past adventurers easily capable of defeating slimes, but today’s adventurers are struggling? After all these years, why only now do you find slimes difficult? Reflect on whether you have trained properly.]

[Golden Family takes action! The West Well Clan of the gold mining family has identified the monster responsible for attacking their excursion convoy. The West Well Clan issues a final warning to the Fishman Race: If the stolen goods from the convoy are not returned, they will dispatch over ten adventurer teams to exterminate the Fishman Race, harvesting everyone’s mermaid parts as ingredients for liquor.]

[Fata’s ’Monster Activity Analysis Survey’ compiles hundreds of recently reported encounters with slimes by adventurer teams. Based on location and timing, it is hypothesized that the frequent large-scale monster activity indicates the emergence of a sustainable demon realm.]

[Beware of pyramid schemes! Recently, individuals claiming to be followers of the ’Pure Love Sect’ have been proselytizing across various kingdoms. This is an unheard-of religion, and religious representatives warn everyone to be cautious of such suspicious figures to avoid getting caught up in pyramid schemes.]

[Demon King Information Summary: Other-race girl enthusiast, virgin...]

"About the Demon Envoy, about monsters, about the Demon Realm, about the Demon King..."

Shami looked at the newspapers piled high in front of him, frowning.

"More and more people are paying attention to the affairs of the demon race..."

As the range of monster activities continued to expand, so did their contact with the Human World. Being the Demon King for the first time, Shami was unsure if this was a normal occurrence.

However, these were just some of the reported news. In this mountain of newspapers, there were many other pieces of random news.

For example, [Comeback! The uncrowned champion decides on a sixth comeback to compete for the Warrior Alliance team championship!] [Winter backpacking trip recommendations across kingdoms] [The Adventurer’s Guild responds to allegations of discrepancies between public financial information and actual implementation by stating that action has been taken against the whistleblower], and other such trending news. Shami felt it was necessary to conduct an on-site investigation into the current interest in demon race affairs across the continent.

Shami firstly carefully considered which entities the demon race had truly offended so far.

Firstly, it was definitely the Esper Kingdom.

But with the goblin race dealing with it, unless Esper Kingdom allied with adventurers against the goblins, Shami could trust in Buwana’s strength.